Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London hurried Mr. Duff Cooper, and it remained to be seen whether he could kindle the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin into an enduring flame, or whether the Prime Minister would ignite and then gradually sputter out as he did when he was briefly lit on the Ethiopian "Deal" by Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935 et ante). Sparks flew in Downing Street last week with two "emergency meetings" of His Majesty's Government within 48 hours, and by the time Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin left to weekend in the country with the King & Queen, the more combustible Fleet Street...
...York, speaks on "The Struggle for Influence in the Danubian Basin: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Jugoslavia and Rumania." This will be followed at 3:30 by an address on the "Political and Economic Scene in France," by Professor Robert Valour of Lyons, France, now lecturing at Columbia University. Sir Arthur Willert, head of the publicity department of the British Foreign Office, 1920-1935, speaks Wednesday evening at 8:15 on "England and the European Crisis...
What this formless interlude in French upper-middle-class family life has got is a characteristic, plush-lined Gilbert Miller production and a fine cast of actors. Chief among them is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, never before seen on a U. S. stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne...
...able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair and Sir Cedric wandering vaguely off the set, spectators cannot tell for sure if the play or just the act is over...
Died. Dame Fanny Lucy Radmall Houston, eccentric widow of Shipowner Sir Robert Patterson Houston, reputedly England's richest woman ($25,000,000); of heart disease; at Byron Cottage, Hampstead, England. A champion of British supremacy, in 1931 she gave $500,000 to enable Britain to win the last Schneider Cup Trophy air races, financed the 1933 flight over Mt. Everest, twice offered to donate $1,000,000 to strengthen the British Army & Navy...